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TUCSON, Ariz. – A U.S. Border Patrol agent saved a 9-month-old infant from choking Saturday afternoon near Ajo, Arizona. Tucson Sector agents were processing migrants at the Ajo Station around…
TUCSON, Ariz. – A U.S. Border Patrol agent saved a 9-month-old infant from choking Saturday afternoon near Ajo, Arizona. Tucson Sector agents were processing migrants at the Ajo Station around…
By Rowena Edwards LONDON – Ecuador is expected to deal quickly with Anglo-French oil company Perenco’s efforts to enforce a multi-million dollar award payment as delaying could cast a shadow…
MOSCOW – Russian online bank Tinkoff on Wednesday said it was suspending outgoing SWIFT transfers in foreign currencies until Oct. 1 after admitting it had struggled with such transactions due…
(Reuters) – TCS Group Holding, which runs Russian online bank Tinkoff, on Thursday said it was introducing a 3% commission on incoming SWIFT transfers in dollars, euros and pounds and…
FRANKFURT – Global drugmakers are lobbying for wealthy nations to fund a supply mechanism that would secure vaccines for low-income countries without delay in case of a new pandemic, but…
By Kirstin Ridley and Karin Strohecker LONDON – The European Union aims to cut off Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, from the SWIFT international payment system as Western allies seek to…
STRASBOURG – The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to remove Russia’s biggest bank Sberbank and two other banks from the international SWIFT transaction and messaging system in another blow to…
By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON – The West’s use of financial sanctions against Russia could risk creating parallel systems and hindering globalisation, the head of asset manager Fidelity International said on…
By Tom Bergin – Western sanctions banning several Russian banks from the SWIFT international payments network with the potential threat of more to come if there is no end to…
BRUSSELS – The European Union is considering excluding banks in Belarus from the SWIFT messaging system that underpins the global financial transactions, as it has already done for seven Russian…
By Tommy Wilkes and Huw Jones LONDON – The European Union is excluding seven Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system that underpins global payment transactions as the West ratchets…
– Russia has a system that can replace the SWIFT international payments system internally, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Monday, stressing the need to support clients of banks.…
By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON – A decision by Western allies on Saturday to block certain Russian banks from the SWIFT payments system is likely to lift oil prices well above…
TOKYO -Japan will join the United States and other Western countries in blocking certain Russian banks’ access to the SWIFT international payment system, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday,…
WASHINGTON – The SWIFT international payments system said on Saturday it was preparing to implement Western nations’ new measures targeting certain Russian banks in coming days. “We are engaging with…
WASHINGTON – The United States, Britain, Europe and Canada on Saturday moved to block Russia’s access to the SWIFT international payment system as part of another round of sanctions against…
BERLIN – Germany and its Western allies agreed to cut Russia out of the SWIFT global payment system, a spokesperson for the German government said on Saturday, in a third…
LONDON -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday that the world should cut Russia off from the global SWIFT payments system and said more countries supported such a move.…
PARIS – Discussions among European Union members about excluding Russia from the Swift international payment system are close to reaching a successful conclusion, a French presidential official said on Saturday.…
MILAN – Italy will support any European Union line on sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, including measures on the SWIFT global payment system, Prime Minister…
– Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had supported cutting off Russia from the global SWIFT payment system in a phone conversation…
PARIS – A decision to cut Russia off from the global SWIFT payment system will be taken in a matter of days, the governor of a central bank within the…
– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi had supported Russia’s disconnection from the global SWIFT payment system in a phone conversation with him. “This…
VILNIUS – Western partners are moving closer to halting Russia’s access to the SWIFT global interbank payments system, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on Saturday. “Our goal is that…
WASHINGTON – Canada, the United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday said they could act to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a further…